Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-01-20
VOL. III.
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS.

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A fine new school building has Just
been completed in Algona.
The following articles of incorpora
ton have been filed with the Secretary
OF State; The Western Engraving and
Publishing Company of Cedar Rapids
with capital of $1,000. The Ashton
Flou and Feed Company of Muscatine
with capital stock Of $4,000. The
Security State Bank of Hartley, O'Brien
county, capital stock $25, 900. The farm
er's Cooperative Store Company Of
Cherokee, capital stock of S., 900.
Linsey Parker, farmer of Woodbury.
county, while returning home few
lights ago with load of lumber, drove
over an embankment and was killed. He
leaves wife and five children. The
coroner's jury found that he was intoxi-
Gated at the time of the accident.
The Chicago, Burlington & Northern is
surveying with view to building from
Lansing, Iowa, to Dakota.
d. @. Randall, wealthy and highly
respected citizen of Cerro Gordo county,
dropped dead Jan. 16. He had Just risen
from his bed and was sitting in chair
by the fire. The disease is thought to
have been apoplexy.
About noon, Jan. IA, William o.
Crosby, of Cedar Falls, shot his wife, kill
ing her instantly and then fired two
shots at his own head, and fell to the
floor dying in few minutes. She was
sitting by the stove in the sitting room
when he came up behind her and, draw.
ing a bulldog revolver, shot her just
behind the left ear. He then shot him
self near the right eye. The bullet did
not pierce the skull, but came out in the
center of the forehead and went into the
wall. He then fired second shot which
entered the lower part of the ear and re-
suited fatally. There was no one pres
emit besides himself and his wife except
the servant girl who ran to the room
when she heard the shots. Mrs. Crosby
sat still in her chair with her head against
the wall, and the blood and brains ooz-
ing from the wound. The murderer lay
on the floor in the middle of the room
and the revolver lay near him. He re-
manned unconscious for about half an
hour before he died. The cause
for the terrible deed is diff
cult to ascertain. About three years ago
Crosbys father died worth about $3.50, 900
and young Crosby is supposed to have
received about $40, 900 as his share of the
estate. He was about 25 years of age
and had been married less than two
years. They have had no chileren and
are said to have lived unhappily. Do
nestle infelicity is the only motive as
signed for the murder. though for some
time he has shown some indications of
mental unsoundness. 1t is said he had
threatened to take his own life, but no
attention was paid to the threats.
A Webster City special, dated Jan. IA,
says: A young lady about 30 years of
age came in on the II 80 train from the
west and registered at the Wilson House
as Dora Grosser, from Gowrie, Iowa.
She was assigned to room 10, and next
morning as she did not get up at the us
ual hour the landlord went to call her,
but did not get any answer. The door
was gotten open and she was found to
be in an unconscious condition, from the
effect of an overdose of morphine. Med
ical aid was summoned and all that could
be, was done to help her, but in spite of
all, she died at $3.50 yesterday afternoon.
The poor girl was soon to become a
mother.
Dr. ii. e. Huntsman, OF TUSCALOOSA,
died on the morning of Jan. IA, after
lingering illness of four weeks duration,
of pneumonia. He came to Oskaloosa
from Pella at the close of the war, and
has been in the constant practice of his
profession eyer since. He was gradu-
ate of the Ann ArbOr medical school.
He leaves wife and five children-three
daughters and two sons, one residing at
Fort Madison and the other in Califor-
MIA. He was a member of the Baptist
church.
The Governor has appointed Mrs. G.
5. Robinson, of Storm Lake, to be one
of the directors of the State Industrial
Schools at Eldora and Mitchellville. She
takes the place of E. r. Hastings, de-
ceased.
At the contest at Coe College, Cedar
Rapids. for representative to the State
intercollegiate oratorical contest Amos
Randall, of Cherokee, was chosen. Sub
sect: knowledge and Culture. Alter
nate, Milo L. Lyon, of Marion.
Geo. Luck, diminutive cripple, at
Dubuque, aged II, accidentally pulled a
lamp from the table into his cradle. The
lamp exploded in the cradle. The boy
died the next morning.
Patrick McGovern, who fell into a
packing house vat at Keokuk, died Jan.
l2, from the effects of scalding.
Rich & Vincents' foundry, at Fort
Dodge, was damaged by fire to the
amount of $3.50 recently.
The building for the last year in Car
roll foots up the sum of S93 900. The
population is placed at $500. This year
$50. 900 is to be expended in the building
of court house and Jail.
Matt Stork was tried before Justice
Drees, at Carroll, for passing forged
notes. He was bound over to the dis
trict court in $1,000 bond, in default Of
which he was sent to Council Bluffs for
safe keeping. Stork has been a saloon
keeper at Breda. but getting hard up he
forged notes on prominent farmers to
the amount of S1S5. and then sold them
at the banks in Carroll. The forgeries
were detected and Stork was arrested in
Chicago and brought back.
Thomas Garner. aged 81 years. died at
his home in Dubuque county Jan. 10.
He was the oldest man in Dubuque
county and one of the pioneers, locating
there in 1850.
An Osceola special dated Jan. IS, says:
One of the saddest and at the same time
most peculiar accidents ever happening
in this vicinity occurred last Tuesday,